hilaryreadsbooks's review against another edition
5.0
This book was RADICAL. As a previous reviewer mentioned, a lot of the examples given seem to be from the UK (and Europe in general), but that doesn't mean that it isn't relevant. McRuer blends together the ways disability and neoliberalism + capitalism + austerity politics interact with each other in this modern world while exploring the ways that crip resistance manifests.
McRuer explains how crip extends beyond perceived notions of disability--it's about bodies rejected by the state, bodies that reject "inspirational porn" and other tactics used by austerity politics to make an argument for austerity politics, bodies that desire disability as a way of expressing indignance and resistance to the ways that the state gentrifies them. McRuer pulls from disability and queer literature, though I am still trying to parse through how he defines queer and its relationship to crip: the two seems to act on and give to each other. Thinking beyond social and culture imagery of disability and crip, disability also extends well into class, race, and sexuality, as well as immigration and displacement. I think for me this is the hardest to grasp, to overcome my mental image of disability and its relation to the medical models. Crip helped me extend my definition of disability.
Most importantly, this book made me reflect deeply about the use of disabled bodies within capitalist markets (which I am inevitably participating in). How does the work that I do displace or dispossess bodies? What does it mean to be someone with a disability within a larger social and economic context of austerity? What does resistance mean in these contexts? Deep thoughts to go to bed to...
McRuer explains how crip extends beyond perceived notions of disability--it's about bodies rejected by the state, bodies that reject "inspirational porn" and other tactics used by austerity politics to make an argument for austerity politics, bodies that desire disability as a way of expressing indignance and resistance to the ways that the state gentrifies them. McRuer pulls from disability and queer literature, though I am still trying to parse through how he defines queer and its relationship to crip: the two seems to act on and give to each other. Thinking beyond social and culture imagery of disability and crip, disability also extends well into class, race, and sexuality, as well as immigration and displacement. I think for me this is the hardest to grasp, to overcome my mental image of disability and its relation to the medical models. Crip helped me extend my definition of disability.
Most importantly, this book made me reflect deeply about the use of disabled bodies within capitalist markets (which I am inevitably participating in). How does the work that I do displace or dispossess bodies? What does it mean to be someone with a disability within a larger social and economic context of austerity? What does resistance mean in these contexts? Deep thoughts to go to bed to...
More...